Windows can't access old hard drive connected

USAFRet said:

trollzhxtroll :

I bought a new SSD on my trip to New York. When I finally installed a fresh version of Windows on it and activated it (after a looooooooong time), I wanted to access my files on my old HDD and Windows said : "You don't have the permission to access this", even if the account on both my HDD and SSD are the same (Email, password, MS account).
Anyone know how to fix this huge mess?

That problem comes from the NTFS permissions. Even though the username may be the same, it is a different user as far as NTFS is concerned.

Lets assume your user account is Ralph
Your files are generally stored under:
C:\Users\Ralph\Documents....
The folder Ralph is what has the permissions. And by default, to access anything under that requires access through the Ralph folder permission.
The individual files do not have any permissions.

How to avoid that next time?
While the original system is still running, copy those files out to a different folder structure.
C:\MyStuff\Docs\AllMyDocs.txt
C:\MyStuff\Pics\AllMyPics.jpg

Copy the files, not the whole folder.

Later, when you want to access that drive and data from your new system, no permission issues.

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K_lash96 said:

I understood all of that and I faced the same problem yesterday, but now my old drive with old windows( whose chrome bookmarks I want ) cannot be accessed through my new system with windows. I cant access the files by login to old windows because something prevents it to run when booting.
Is there a way to access them without logging in and through my new system? as these bookmarks are a lot to deal with and are around hundreds including my last year's work.
Thanks in advanced!

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USAFRet said:

You can't boot up from the old drive int he new system.
You just have to discover where Chrome saves it bookmarks, and navigate down to that location in the old drive.

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K_lash96 said:

but I cant open my user's folder of old drive. What I mean was how can I access that folder on my new system? Is there a way?

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